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...guns had been shooting at. What they found: gun emplacements, ammunition, living quarters and other evidence which indicated that at one time nearly 10,000 Japs had been on Kiska. There was a submarine base (evidently abandoned weeks ago) and a long-neglected seaplane base and hangar. Telephone lines strung around the eastern side of the island led to a fair-sized power plant. Crude roads in some sections could accommodate the 50 or more trucks, some Fords, some Jap brands. The Japs were also victory gardeners. They had planted several small patches of vegetables. On the island were many...
...other extreme of modernity was the electric violin employed in Bowles' "The Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...
...unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise to work," he says. "Gypsy men ain't built like ordinary men. They ain't fitted for shovel work. They're high-strung and they rupture easy...
Lift Your Heads (British Ministry of Information; OWI). Because a champion German-Jewish boxer picked up a small bird and put it in his wheelbarrow in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...
...Japanese up squarely against the mountains. Here they abandoned their heavy artillery and well-stocked pack trains and took to the straggling, slippery trails, where the Chinese were dug in for the main battle. And there, for the first time, the Japanese met stiff resistance. Against crack Chinese units strung out south along a 50-mile front they threw their full strength. But their proudest advance, from Changyang over the mountains to Tuchenwan, netted them only 15 miles...